All the while, his personal life and marriage are thrown into upheaval with the arrival of a past lover, one who has a dangerous favor to ask. Operating in ever-increasing danger, Varian navigates the treacherous waters of the American truce with France and works hard to convince his charges of the need to escape. Recounting the true story of Varian Fry, an American journalist tasked with the daunting mission of rescuing Europe's most prominent artists, writers and philosophers from Nazi-occupied France, Orringer seamlessly blends fact with fiction. "Masterfully crafted and impossible to put down, The Flight Portfolio offers a testament to the enduring power of art, and love, in any form.An electrifying story of heroism during WWII based on the life of Varian Fry, an American journalist who ran rescue missions out of Nazi-occupied France.Īt once a sweeping historical narrative, an insightful character study and a tender romance, Julie Orringer's The Flight Portfolio defies easy categorization. His many clients included Hannah Arendt, Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, and Marc Chagall, and the race against time to save them is a tale of forbidden love, high-stakes adventure, and unimaginable courage. Instead, he stayed more than a year, working to procure false documents, amass emergency funds, and arrange journeys across Spain and Portugal, where the refugees would embark for safer ports.
"Bighearted, gorgeous, historical, suspenseful, everything you want a novel to be" (-Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less ), a new book inspired by the World War II story you've never heard-the real-life quest of an unlikely hero to save the lives and work of Europe's great minds from the impending Holocaust In 1940, Varian Fry traveled to Marseille carrying three thousand dollars and a list of imperiled artists and writers he hoped to help escape within a few weeks.
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